OpenAI APIs · Schema
OpenAI Chat Completion
Represents a chat completion response generated by the model, containing one or more message choices with associated metadata and token usage.
Artificial IntelligenceEmbeddingsImage-GenerationLanguage ModelsSpeech
Properties
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| id | string | A unique identifier for the chat completion |
| object | string | The object type, always chat.completion |
| created | integer | Unix timestamp of when the completion was created |
| model | string | The model used for the chat completion |
| choices | array | A list of chat completion choices |
| usage | object | |
| system_fingerprint | string | Fingerprint representing the backend configuration |
JSON Schema
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"$id": "https://api.openai.com/schemas/openai/chat-completion.json",
"title": "OpenAI Chat Completion",
"description": "Represents a chat completion response generated by the model, containing one or more message choices with associated metadata and token usage.",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "A unique identifier for the chat completion"
},
"object": {
"type": "string",
"const": "chat.completion",
"description": "The object type, always chat.completion"
},
"created": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Unix timestamp of when the completion was created"
},
"model": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The model used for the chat completion"
},
"choices": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"index": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "The index of the choice in the list"
},
"message": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/ChatMessage"
},
"finish_reason": {
"type": "string",
"enum": ["stop", "length", "tool_calls", "content_filter"],
"description": "The reason the model stopped generating tokens"
}
}
},
"description": "A list of chat completion choices"
},
"usage": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/Usage"
},
"system_fingerprint": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Fingerprint representing the backend configuration"
}
},
"required": ["id", "object", "created", "model", "choices"],
"$defs": {
"ChatMessage": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"role": {
"type": "string",
"enum": ["system", "user", "assistant", "tool"],
"description": "The role of the message author"
},
"content": {
"description": "The contents of the message",
"oneOf": [
{ "type": "string" },
{ "type": "null" }
]
},
"tool_calls": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/ToolCall"
},
"description": "Tool calls generated by the model"
},
"refusal": {
"type": ["string", "null"],
"description": "The refusal message if the model refused to respond"
}
},
"required": ["role"]
},
"ToolCall": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The ID of the tool call"
},
"type": {
"type": "string",
"const": "function"
},
"function": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The name of the function to call"
},
"arguments": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The arguments as a JSON string"
}
},
"required": ["name", "arguments"]
}
},
"required": ["id", "type", "function"]
},
"Usage": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"prompt_tokens": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Number of tokens in the prompt"
},
"completion_tokens": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Number of tokens in the generated completion"
},
"total_tokens": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Total number of tokens used"
}
},
"required": ["prompt_tokens", "completion_tokens", "total_tokens"]
}
}
}
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